Background The WHO estimates that a considerable number of people in Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) rely on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) to meet …

Purpose In resource-limited contexts in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), a
considerable proportion of individuals seeking care for mental disorders consult traditional …

Background Traditional, complementary and alternative (TCAM) medicine is consumed by a
large majority of the South African population. In the context of increasing overall demand for …

Background: Poverty, inadequacy of health services, shortage of health workers, infectious
diseases scourges, rampant shortage of drugs and equipment in existing health facilities …

Diabetes prevalence is increasing worldwide, especially in low-and middle-income
countries (LMIC), posing the need for improved detection and management strategies …

In Uganda, around two thirds of medicines are procured from the private sector, mostly from
drug shops. The introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) at drug shops …

Indigenous or traditional medicine has, since the 1970s, been widely regarded as a
resource likely to contribute to strengthening the health care systems in low income …

Background Burkittlymphoma (BL) is the most common childhood cancer in Cameroon with
a reported incidence of 3 per 100,000 children under 15 years in the Northwest region …

In response to widespread overuse of antimalarial drugs, the World Health Organisation
changed guidelines in 2010 to restrict the use of antimalarials to parasitologically confirmed …

Although African patients use both conventional or modern and traditional healthcare
simultaneously, it has been proven that 80% of people rely on African traditional medicine …